Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.
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German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.
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In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
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A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!
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Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.
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The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
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[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
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Planning other people’s actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of labor and let them determine what the entrepreneurs should produce.
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